Council survey

[Charliebear322]

There’s someone from the council going around doing a survey of all the council properties and peering into gardens.
They didn’t speak to me other than that. am I going to get a chance to fix any damage myself or are they going to get someone to do it for me and charge me or is it free. I don’t know

You will need to contact the council, no-one here can say. What sort of damage is it?

Are you sure it's the council and not some one looking for stuff to nick? If they are legit they'll be happy to show you their ID badge.

They haven’t got badges and their van doesn’t have the council logo on

Yeah I haven’t got anything worth taking maybe someone else does they’ve been going round looking under door mats and looking at windows

Call the council because these guys are not from them 100%.

Very brazen looking under doormats during a day....

Did you get a registration number for the van?

Yes i did try to do it secretly

So ring them with the reg number and ask

I phoned them earlier and they said they would call me back but they haven’t and they close at 5

Phone 101 - the non emergency police number and report it there.

I did that too after I phoned the council earlier and they said they won’t do anything until the council confirm if it was them or not

@Charliebear322 at least the police will have it on record that you reported it.

Sounds decidedly dodgy! No badges,no logo on the van,I would be well suspicious. I would phone your council and ask them.

The police just called me and said they’ve checked it out and it’s a legitimate company the council have hired to survey doors and windows incase they need replacing or something? I don’t know.

I wouldn't worry about it,we had survey about three months ago and it's came to nothing as yet and the guy made everything sound so urgent.
In fact he was starting to annoy me with the crap he was saying..I told him I wish I hadn't answered the door now..ala Mumsnet style 😁

Apparently here is a change in rules coming that means LA homes need to be up to a certain Energy Rating or they will face a large fine from the government. My next door neighbour had one done last week.

All councils have to do stock condition surveys of their properties, amongst other things this helps them work out when windows etc should be replaced.

Even if they have a contractor doing the surveys on their behalf, there should be an introduction and identification of who, what and why.